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<p>The Department spent the following on refreshments at ministerial events and meetings
in 2017 and 2018:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Spend
on Refreshments</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>£</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p>9,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p>4,292</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p>

<p>The number of staff working in the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales and
declaring themselves as BAME as at 30 June 2019 are shown below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Grade</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No.
of staff reporting ethnicity </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>BAME</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(a)
grade 7/6</strong></p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(b)
grade 5</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(c)
grade 3</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total
other staff grades</strong></p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p>

<p>The Office of the Secretary of State encourages flexible working and uses flexible
working policies to enable staff to have working patterns that suit both individuals’
and the Department’s needs. The Department has arrangements in place for monitoring
hours worked and line managers are responsible for ensuring that employees are not
working excessive hours and are compliant with the Working Time Regulations.</p><p>
</p><p>The Department is committed to the wellbeing of staff and regularly informs
them about wellbeing-related topics, including maintaining good physical and mental
health.</p>

<p>Last year, over 3000 jobs came to Wales through Foreign Direct Investment, through
57 projects of which 93% were supported by both my department and the Department for
International Trade.</p><p>Between 2015 and 2018, the UK attracted more foreign direct
investment in capital investment than France and Germany combined.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of officials
in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in the last 12 months;
what proportion that leave was of total sick leave taken in his Department; and what
the cost was to his Department of officials taking sick leave over that period.

<p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales is unable to disclose the number
or proportion of officials in the Department citing stress as a reason for sick absence
in the last twelve months as the data relates to fewer than five staff, and releasing
the data would risk the identification of individuals.</p><p>Sick leave for reasons
relating to stress amounted to 33% of total sick leave days in the Department in the
12 months to 31 March. The cost of officials taking sick leave was £14,117.</p><p>The
physical and mental wellbeing of our staff is crucially important to the department
and staff have access to all employee services that help to sustain physical and mental
wellbeing, including Occupational Health and a 24-hour employee assistance helpline.</p><p>
</p>

<p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State role is unpaid. No Ministers paid by
the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales have left under severance terms since
13 July 2016 and no payments have therefore been made. This is confirmed in the Department’s
annual reports and accounts.</p>